Cheese-knife.



Patented Oct. 2|, |902. M. W. MIRACLE.

CHEESE KNIFE.

(Application filed Feb. 11. 1902.)

2 Sheets-Sheet L No. 7ll,908.

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M. W. MIRACLE.

cHEEsE KNIFE.

(Applicationled Feb. 11, 1902.)

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(No Model.)

UNITED STATES MERIDITH IV. MIRACLE, OF SPRINGD'ALE, ARKANSAS.

CHEESE-KNIFE.

SPECIFICATION forming part-of Letters Patent No. 711,908, dated October2l, 1902.

Application led February 11,1902. Serial No. 93,500. (No model-l I Toall whom, it may concern.:

Be it known that I, MERIDITH W. MIRACLE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Springdale, in the county ofVVashington and State ofArkansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inCheese-Knives, of which the following is a specification.

Myinvention relates to cheese-knives; and it consists in a circulardisk, posts extending upwardly from the periphery of said base, acircular top secured on the upper ends of said posts, a stationaryhalf-circle gauze side wall, a half-circle gauze sliding door or wall, arotary table journaled on said base, a hinged knife, and a measuringdevice. g

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of my inventionwith the door thrown back, thus exposing the knife and measuring deviceto view. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional View at right angles (line X X)to the View shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a crosssectional view of myinvention cuton the line Y Y of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a perspective View ofthe knife. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the measuring device.

My invention is described as follows:

1 is a circular disk, as shown in Fig. 2. It is not shown in Fig. l,because it is hidden from view by a strip 2, which covers it.Eccentrically situated in the said base 1, but not far from the center,is a bearing 3, sunk some distance in said base, but extending above theface thereof, and pivoted on said bearing is a circular disk 4. Saiddisk has an opening 5 countersunk in its bottom face, so that it mayrevolve on the bearing 3, and running entirelythrough the center of saiddisk is a perforation 6,`concentric with the larger countersunk part,and through this perforation 6 is the lower end of a standard 7, whichstandard has its bearing in the bearing 3. Said standard is slotted fromvery near its upper end to very near its lower end.k This slot I havenumbered 8.

Journaled in the upper face of the base l are four or more rollers 9 forthe rotary disk 4 to revolve on. This rotary disk is forthe purpose ofholding a cake of cheese and has extending in a straight line from itscenter a row of pins 10 to keep the cake of cheese in place.

Secured to the periphery of the base 1 are Vdown until its lower end issocketed in the bearing 3. In order to hold the said post in the saidopening 13 and at the same time to allow it to move up and down, a wire14. is

vpassed through said slot, and each end of said ywire is secured to theupper face of the cover `12. By this means this said post can be movedup until the lower end of the slot isagainst the wire 14, and then it isout of the way, so that a cheese-cake may be slipped in and placed onthe circular disk and pressed down until the pins 10 take hold; butbefore the cake is put in place a hole is made through its center forthe said post 7 to pass through, and thus when the said cake of cheeseis in place the said disk may be revolved, and thus the cheese-cake isalso revolved.

The post 20, or that post which is at the right-hand side of thedrawings, Fig. l, is slotted from its outer face inwardly and from itsbottom to its top, and running through this slot and working up and downin the same is the cheese-knife 15.

Near the center of and to the under face of the cover is secured abracket 16,' and hinged in this bracket is an arm 17. The lower end ofthis arm is perforated and by Vmeans of said perforation is pivoted tothe said knife 15, through a perforation 18, near its front end, thusenablingthe knife to move backward and forward andin such movement upand down, and thus the cheese-cake is not cut by a directdownwardmovement, but by a thrust and sliding movement, thus minimizingthe danger of crumbling the cheese.

Situated on the inside of the case is another post 19 in line with thepost 20, and secured to these posts 19 and 2O is a beam 21, aboutequidistant from the top and bottom of the case and verticallyslottedback to and slightly beyond the central post 7, and the knife 15works in this slot land also in the slot of the post 20 and inthe slotof the post 7.

In the front face of the cross-beam 21 is a depression 22, and in thisdepression Works IOO a plate 23, and to this plate is secured a circularslotted bar 24 partaking of the circle of the cheese-cake, andadjustably secured to said bar 24 are measuring points or pointers 25,so that I can adjust the cheese by turning the rotary7 disk and measureoff by means of these pointers any sized slice I may desire. Thesepointers may be so adjusted as to indicate one ounce, one-half pound,one pound, and so on.

Running around the entire peripheries of the base and cover is a stripof sheet metal 26, and secured to the outer face of this strip of metalis a Wall of gauze 26', extending from the top to the bottom of the casehalfway around, reaching from the two posts ll. Two circular frames 27,one at the bottom and the other at the top, reach half-way around thecircle and are secured together by end posts 28 and middle posts 29,'and to the outer faces of these two circular frames is secured anothergauze wall 30, Which works against the inner face of the said strip ofmetal 26. This second last-described frame and gauze wall is the door,and when I wish to put in the cake of cheese or take it out I slip thedoor half-way around to the rear, leaving the entire front of the easeopen. Extending from the bottom disk to the cover is another post 3l, tomore firmly unite the two parts l and l2.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

1. A cheese case and knife, consisting of a base; posts running up fromsaid base; atop secured on said posts; bands running around theperipheries of said top and bottom and secured thereto; a one-half wallof gauzewire,its top secured to the outer faces of said bands, and itsedges to opposite posts; two semicircular frames, one working on thebase, and the other against the cover, posts connecting the frames; awire-gauze Wall secured at its top and bottom to said one-half circularframes, its edges to opposite posts; said wall completing the entirewall of gauze; a bearing situated in the base near its center; acircular disk, having in its bottom, a counter- ,sunk opening, fittingover said bearing and revolving on the same; casters secured on the saidbase; a line of pins extending from the center to the circumference onthe top of said disk; two bearing-posts situated each near thecircumference of the top and bottom, one being vertically slotted; abeam secured to said bearingposts, having a longitudinal vertical slot,running more than one-half its length, and an opening immediately overthe opening in the bearing in the base; a vertically-slotted standardpassing down through an opening in the top and through the opening inthe last-mentioned beam, into the bear ing situated on the base; abearing depending'from the top, and immediately over the slot of theiastmentioned beam; a knife working through the slot of one of thebearingposts, through the longitudinal vertical slot in the bar, andthrough the slot in the central pin; an arm pivoted to thelast-mentioned bearing and to the forward end of the knife; a plateadjustably secured in a depression in the side of said longitudinallyvertically slotted beam; a slotted circular bar secured to said plate;pointers adjustably secured to said bar, and a handle secured to theouter end of said knife, substantially as shown and described and forthe purposes set forth.

2. A cheese case and knife, consisting of a base l; a bearing 3, sunk inthe base, not far from its center; a circular disk 1, journaled on saidbearing, and having in its center a perforation 6; casters 9, secured inthe upper face of said base; pins lO, secured to the upper face of saiddisk; a bearing-post 19, situated near the periphery of said base; aslotted post 20, situated near the periphery of said base, andimmediately opposite post 19; a beam 2l, secured one end to the post 19,and the other to the slotted post 20; said beam having in its center avertical perforation, in one side a longitudinal depression 22, and inone end, and for more than one-half its length a longitudinal verticalslot l5; a vertically-slotted standard 7, passing down through aperforation in the top l2, the perforation in the beam 2l, its lower endjournaled in the bearing 3; a cover 12, situated on the top of the saidposts 19 and 20, and posts ll; posts ll, extending from the base to thecover and opposite each other; a bearing 16, depending from the lowerface of the cover; an arm 17, having one endv pivoted in said bearing; acheese-knife working through the slots in the post 20, the beam 2l, andthe standard 7, and pivoted to said arm; an adjustable plate 23, workingin the depression IOO 22, of the beam 2l, a circular slotted bar 24,

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